u/ChickenMonkey24601

I went to my local shop and 4 thigh fillets were £4.99 and 3 breasts were £5.50.

The whole large chicken next to them was £4.40.

I was so angry at the price of the separated parts that I bought the whole bird in protest.

I get home and realize I have no idea what to do with a whole bird other than roast it but that seems a little boring as I roast chickens a lot.

Any recipe ideas that use a whole bird? I'm also absolutely terrible at breaking down chickens, I've tried 6 times and it's gone horrendously every time.

Thanks in advance!

Just looking for a way to up my chilli game so I started out super basic a year or two ago and now I wanna get max punch.

UK style Chille con Carne. I started out very basically cooking this as a mid-week over-tired slow cooker throw-together recipe

-Beginner level serves 4-

-1 Onions

-3 Garliccolves

-1tsp Chilli powder

-500g Ground beef

-1 tin Kidney beans (optional but reccomended)

-2tsp Cumin

-1 tin Tomatoes

-pinch Salt

Literally just slice your onions and mince your garlic then throw everything in a slow cooker on medium for 6 hours. Serve it with rice. Super ultra simple, very low knife-work.

Absolutely simple and delicious.

Now, my chilli

-After cooking it like 50 times this is my new way to make it so I make it to freeze half and have it over 2 meals-

-3tsp cumin seed

-2tsp coriander

-1.5tbsp paprika

-2tsp smoked paprika

-2tsp oregano

-1tsp cinnamon

-1/2tsp cayenne pepper

-1/2tsp black pepper

-1/2tsp salt

-1-2 ancho chillis, rehydrated and diced fine

-1-2 Chipotle chillis, rehydrated and diced

-Juice of a lime (I use about half to 2/3 of a lime juice depending on taste)

-2 beef stock pots

-2 tins GOOD tomatoes, san marzano/mutti

-1kg mince aim for 12-15% fat

-2tbsp tomato paste

-1half chorizo

-2-3ish small/med red onions, thinly sliced

-6-8 garlic cloves, minced

-2tbsp Worcester sauce

-1 tin Kidney beans

-1/2 can of Dark beer like guiness

-3 cubes of 85%+ chocolate

-3 anchovies smashed with a fork

-Rehydrate your chillis in boiling water for a minute or two to remove bitterness and cut them fine, removing seeds.

-Toast and crush coriander and cumin seeds in a pestle and mortar, and put all your spices on a plate ready

-Cut your chorizo into tiny chunks and heat slowly in a Dutch oven to render the fat out, sweat onions down with a tiny pinch of salt in the chorizo oil/meat mix slowly until golden, Gas 3-4.

-Add minced garlic towards the end so the garlic doesn't burn, let it go gold, not brown.

-Add all spices, making double sure you've already toasted and crushed the coriander and cumin seeds, let them bloom until fragrant but DONT burn it. Not fixable.

-Add all mince and cook it til it's browned and has a nice maillard reaction

-Add tomato paste and diced chillis to browned meat and cook it out

-Add Worcestershire sauce AFTER tomato paste has cooked out, along with your anchovies for extra umami (it doesn't taste fishy AT ALL at the end)

-Stir everything together

-Add 2 tomato tins and your stock pots, if plum tomatoes then break them up at this step, add your lime juice, be sure to scrape the fond off the bottom of the pan at this step, as these are the first water based ingredient to be added. (if you're having beans, this is where to add them) Then bring everything up to temperature.

-Stir again once it consistently starts bubbling after each stir, reduce the heat to Gas 1-2 depending on how much time you have and put the lid on the Dutch oven, leaving about an inch gap so the chilli can reduce. Check it every 5-10 mins, stirring each time so it doesn't catch on the bottom. Cook until it's as thick as you desire. Adjust seasoning with Salt, Lime, Cayenne, and Brown Sugar, if it tastes wrong or flat, just be careful. You can always add more, you can't take away at this step.

-Chilli done 👍 OR add chocolate and guiness and let it cook for another 15-20 mins for extra dark richness

-Serve it with either Rice, Nachos, Baked potatoes, whatever you fancy.

So that's my recipe, is there anything that sticks out as a cooking faux pa, any way to amp it up further, please let me know. It's already bloody delicious, but I'm by no means a chef so I'd appreciate some input 😁

Thankyou in advance!

They get enjoyment out of beating people they already know they're better than?

I went against someone yesterday in Kishin. I've just picked up King so I'm very ropey with him.

They hadn't played ranked in 3 months!

It's so fucking stupid, it really ruins the quickplay experience. People say "People try harder in QM". No they don't, they're literally smurfs, sad and wanting to get easy wins. I want to learn my character before ranked. Why do I have to fight some knobhead that taunts after every KO while being 6 ranks above me?!

I recently purchased a Dutch oven because as far as I can tell, it can be used like a slow cooker that you can actually get a sear on your meat on before closing the lid and putting it in the oven.

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I made a chicken thighs+rice recipe, relatively simple, and after the cook, the rice was stuck on the bottom. It was a low temperature cook so the rice wasn't burned, and the rice above the bottom layer was actually pretty nicely cooked but how do I make it not stick?

I'm from the midlands, and I am curious about everyone's ideal breakfast and where in the country they're from. Please let me know where you're from in your reply.

What's everyone's dream 10 item fry up? Your budget is £5. Each item is 50p and you can have as many of any particular item as you want but you only have £5 feel free to have 10 poached eggs 🤣. Sauces are free as well as tea/coffee/OJ.

- 1 full slice of white/ brown / wholemeal toast with butter

- 1 slice of fried bread

- 1 bacon rasher / vegetarian / vegan bacon

- 1 sausage / vegetarian / vegan sausage

- 1 lorne sausage

- 1 slice of spam fried or grilled

- 1 hashbrown

- 1/2 tin of beans

- 1/2 tin of tomatoes

- 1 halved and grilled tomato

- 6 grilled small tomatoes on the vine

- 1/2 cup fried mushrooms

- 1 poached/fried/scrambled egg

- 1 disk of black/white pudding

- 1/2 portion of chips

- 1 Derbyshire Oatcake

- 1 Crumpet

- 1 Scoop of Bubble + Squeak

- 1 Tattie scone

I realise there may be some items not on the list due to regional items I'm unaware of, please add them to your breakfast in a fair amount similar to each of the ones listed.

I'm going

-1 Derbyshire Oatcake

-2 Bacon cooked crispy

-2 Sausage

-1/2 tin of beans cooked jammy

-1/2 cup mushrooms cooked a lot

-1 Slice of toast with butter

-1 Fried egg with a jammy yolk

-1 Hashbrown cooked crispy

I'm from Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Potato chips. I'm sorry.

So we all know that potato chips are a fundamental snack among millions of people, and we've been told that the more money you put down, the better the snack will be.

I'm sorry but I fucking HATE Kettle chips. They're overly crunchy, they're bitter, they're too potato-ey. I understand the angle, like for real, and they aren't exactly wrong. They highlight the great potatoes, the starchiness, the awesome hand-cooked-ness. Their flavours are usually punchy to fight the real potato flavor.

But WHY?

LAYS are so much lighter, so much crispier. Their potatoes DO THEIR JOB and then leave your palette. They're so light crispy and moreish, while delivering amazing flavors. You can dip em, you can just eat them plain. And you KNOW you're eating bad, but they hit all the pleasure points on the tongue.

Kettle chips definitely get points for appearance, they're slow, they're long cooked. They have dark spots and cooked crunchy flesh. Oftentimes they're dark on the rim to show the skin is on. They're thick so when you chew them and crunch through their body, they feel like a real potato, but that taste is so bitter man. It's SO POTATO. I eat Lays to taste the flavor they're advertising with some light crispy crunch.

Kettle just overloads their flavours to try and cut through the soily bitter starchy note of the "real" potato.

I get it. Different markets. But if I want a flavour bomb, I'm going Lays, if you want a realistic potato approach, then you just gotta deal with the starchy bitterness that people only.pretend to like because it's seen as higher up the heirarchy to enjoy such things.

I'm very close to putting the game down, honestly. Lynx was fine, I've even gone back for his rematch and got his claws, he was a bit tricky to fight but nothing major, I play mainly fighting games on console and a lot transfers over, so I don't feel like it's a full skill issue, but what's the damn deal with Hermit? I've maxed out all armours, lynx's claws, throwing knives, everything is full. I always win the first two rounds against him and then it's like the AI goes crazy, I've tried staying away from him and he uses OP lightning, I've tried sticking to him like glue and then he uses the meditation shit where he sweeps you with his swords so you take the full lighting hit, I've tried 4 different weapons and I can't take the 3rd round. I don't even know what to do differently, I've tried everything, and after maybe 25 attempts I'm just tempted to uninstall it.

Just answer honestly as fans of the game, is this level of unfair OP bullshit throughout the game?

Edit: I'm playing the Special Edition if that makes any difference